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Detail of R. T. Pritchett's frontispiece for the
1890 edition of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle,
showing the ship in the Straits of Magellan |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Richard Hughes (1900; died April 28, 1976) British poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright;
A High Wind in Jamaica
Died on this day:
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1824; born January 22, 1788) English poet;
Don Juan;
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; "She Walks in Beauty"
Charles Darwin (1882; born February 12, 1809) English naturalist;
The Voyage of the Beagle;
The Origin of Species;
The Descent of Man
Charles Sanders Peirce (1914; born September 10, 1839) American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist known for logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics
Octavio Paz (1998; born March 31, 1914) Mexican poet;
Early Poems: 1935–1955;
Collected Poems, 1957–1987;
The Labyrinth of Solitude;
They Shall Not Pass!;
The Sun Stone; Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)
J. G. Ballard (2009; born November 15, 1930) English novelist and short story writer (including science fiction), and essayist;
The Wind from Nowhere;
The Drowned World;
Crash;
Empire of the Sun;
High-Rise
Bonus Classic:
Zhuangzi (c. 4th century BCE) Chinese philosopher who wrote the
Zhuangzi, a text from the Warring States period (476-221 BC) with stories depicting the carefree nature of the ideal Daoist sage
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